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I prefer free friends to those that charge me money to be my friend.
Companies that act like friends don’t last long. Business and pleasure and all that
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On the other hand, who else besides FAANG has the resources to resist the NSA, at least in small ways?
It's not about resources, it's about reach and jurisdiction. If anything, FAANGs have the most incentive to cooperate with the NSA because they're located in the US and have the most to lose. The companies that can best resist the NSA are located outside of the US and EU.
Note that this study and the other one from earlier this year predate iOS 14.5, which introduced the “ask not to track” prompt that disables the operating system-provided unique identifier.
https://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2021/09/22/study-effectiven...
One thing you have to consider when debating i0S versus Android in the context of privacy is: you can have the best of both worlds and own an Android phone and an i0S device (if you can afford that, and I'm aware many citizens in third world countries don't have the luxury of owning two phones). It's like the old Chrome versus Firefox debates that happen every other month now on Hackernews & Reddit. I own a Chromeboo…
This is something I’ve been wanting to do!
I’d love to own an iPhone and Android so I can get the best of both worlds.
Does anyone have any suggestions going this route? Ideally I’d like to keep a single number that can be used on both devices and I can just decide myself what device I want to drive for the day.
I'm not going to debate the conclusion of this paper, but keep in mind if you pick Android, it's still very important to pick the brand correctly. When you open the Clock app on Xiaomi phones, the first thing you see is a privacy policy you need to accept (!). Samsung might be better on this. I saw quite a few people on other websites (not HN) who said they switched to Android after Apple's CSAM thing, but put little…
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Of course they can, the paper just did. Security (which privacy is one subset of) is not binary. Just because it can never be perfect does not mean that it's all equal.
Privacy is absolutely binary and taking a hardline approach is absolutely the proper way to protect your privacy. You either actively choose to share information (1) or you don’t (0). The article compares who is sharing what to who — sharing info is sharing, period. A smartphone with all the bells and whistles in 2021 is not private. I stand by my statement, hardline.
Is there a privacy difference between telling your oldest, closest friend a secret and telling the office gossip?
Is there a difference between writing a secret in your encrypted electronic journal and posting it to facebook?
The issue with privacy absolutism is that it's essentially impossible to do it perfectly, so any tiny theoretical breech means you should pretty much just give up and tell the world, right? Or maybe there's more shades of gray than that and we can go ahead and evaluate the privacy implications of different activities with some more nuance.
I think this study is quite good but it does come with one important caveat: From page 5, "This is before the introduction of Apple's new opt-in mechanism for tracking in 2021. Our dataset therefore reflects privacy in the app ecosystem shortly before this policy change." Personally, I would prefer to see the difference between apps monetized by customers paying directly and apps monetized by advertising. I take for…
https://www.imore.com/apples-anti-tracking-iphone-feature-fu...
ATT, when a user selects "no", blocks the app from accessing your device ID. This makes it so that even though the app can still track what you do in their app, they can't connect that to the data collected from other apps through your device ID, and therefore build a profile of you as a person.
It's tough to diff the privacy between Android and iOS, as an OS. However, as an app ecosystem, it's not tough at all. For example, there is not a single open source email app on iOS which supports GPG email. In the iOS app ecosystem, privacy and FLOSS is an afterthought, since iOS users are more likely to pay for proprietary software. On Android, there are a lot more options, including things like F-Droid which are…
While it would be nice to be able to ensure that the source is what's exactly on the app store, protonmail does have their iOS app open sourced. Not quite the same as a generic email client, but is probably the next closest thing.
If this was more conservatively titled "who has the worst default app store" that'd be far more accurate.